The Bachelor's Krystal Nielson is detailing the "extremely traumatic" experience she had while giving birth to her second baby with husband Miles Bowles. During the Tuesday, February 10, episode of iHeartRadio's "Almost Famous" podcast, Nielson, 38, explained that she decided to get induced in November 2025 after finding out son Rowan had an "umbilical vein varix." Nielson previously went through a similar experience with her daughter Andara, now 4, - but this delivery began to differ. "So with Andara, I progressed pretty quickly. It was 21 hours total from when we started the induction to when she was born, an hour and 15 [minutes] of pushing," Nielson said. "I was dilating at 36 weeks. I was already dilating. We thought he was going to come soon, he was going to come early and he was going to come really quick because the second time they tend to drop really fast, your body knows what to do." She continued, "So at this point, I was being induced. I'll have to go back to see the exact time ... but I believe it had been 40 hours total. So it was about 35 hours of me being induced and I had only dilated from a one to a three. And I was already [at] one going into the hospital." BiP's Krystal Nielson and Husband Miles Bowles' Relationship Timeline Nielson explained that she didn't have an epidural and wanted to have a natural birth. She noted that a balloon was giving her contractions every five minutes, but when someone in the hospital "went to pull it," it got "stuck." "From that point, I just started bleeding a lot. Things just really started to go downhill, honestly, from that point because it got completely stuck and I was almost screaming in pain and they couldn't get it out," Nielson said, explaining that an OB eventually came to deflate the balloon. "Long story short, flash forward, they're like, 'Let's give you the epidural. Let's break your water and that should get things going.' And it did." Nielson explained that when she reached 10 centimeters, she was told there was a "shift change" in the hospital for new nurses to come in. "I could feel Rowan just drop, drop, drop, drop, drop. I was like, 'Oh, my God, he is going to be born before these nurses even get in here.' I can feel him, he's so low. And then all of a sudden he just stops. The nurses came in and then I'm pushing. We all thought just a few pushes and he was going to be born. They didn't see his head, but I could just feel him so low," Nielson said, explaining she ultimately pushed for more than three hours. Bachelor Nation's Krystal Nielson and Miles Bowles Are Married Nielson noted that she was wearing a "gas mask" and was "feeling extremely woozy" while "on the verge of passing out." The doctor ultimately came in and checked on Nielson, who was told that her son was "stuck in [her] pelvis." Nielson explained that she "kind of blacked out" while the doctor tried to rotate her son, adding that it was "extremely painful." "When she pulled her hand out, blood gushed out. All this blood and clots. At that point, it was Code Pink," Nielson said, recalling how she was wheeled into the operating room. "We don't know if her trying to rotate him had caused my uterus to rupture or if it had ruptured before, because my energy was fading very fast and had been for awhile. Being in the OR was extremely traumatic. Definitely the most horrific thing I've been through." Courtesy of Krystal Nielson/Instagram Nielson explained that she was "convulsing off of the table and shaking" as the doctors were "cutting and then pulling" her open. "Because he was so low, someone had to go in through my vagina and push him higher because they couldn't get him out. They had to cut into my left rectus abdominis horizontally because my abs were too tight to pull him through," she said. "From there, he was vacuumed - suctioned out of me through the C-section." Due to the emergency situation, Nielson shared that they were unsure her son would "make it" because his placenta had been prematurely detached from the uterus. Her son was taken to a separate hospital where he was tested for "any potential brain damage" and began treatments in the NICU. Krystal Nielson Gets Real About 'Hard' Mom Days After 'Chemical Exposure' "They put me under to repair my uterus. So then I went completely under. When I was going under, this whole time, I was just praying. I was like, 'Please, God, save my uterus. Please, God, save my uterus.' And my baby, of course. But once he was out, it was just like, 'Please save this,'" she recalled. "The surgeon told me my uterus, how it had ruptured - it's not just like a clean cut, like when they do an incision - she said it was roadkill, it had completely just exploded. They weren't able to put it together and it wasn't holding stitches." Ultimately, Nielson feels "extremely grateful" that the doctors were able to save her uterus. When she woke up, she and her husband were both "sobbing." (The pair tied the knot in 2023.) After her surgery, doctors "str